When talk of writing a book about the experience came up, months after the relay, the task fell to Ryan Pancoast, a.k.a. Sanford, who elicited personal accounts from teammates, advisors and drivers to add to his narrative. He prefaces the collaborative account, Coast to Coast: The Story of the 2004 R.I.T. Transcontinental Relay Run with the disclaimer: For some of us, it was the best experience of our lives. For others, it was torturous. For most of us, it was somewhere in between.